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Author: Wanamaker, Rodman
Title: Photographs Made on the Rodman Wanamaker Historical Expeditions to the North American Indian Comprise the Most Complete Collection of Indian Subjects in Existence
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Date Published: 1915?
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[12]pp; one page of letterpress (description of the Collection plus prices for different sizes of photos). 31 captioned (and copyright) half-tone reproductions. 18x12.7 cm (7x5"), pictorial wrappers.

Catalogue of the Wanamaker collection, which was on display in the Palace of Education. Proceeds from the sales were to go "toward the erection of a suitable Memorial to a Vanishing Race" [never built]. Although Wanamaker, a department store magnate from Philadelphia, underwrote between 1908 and 1913 three expeditions to northern Plains tribes, the photographs in fact were taken by Joseph K. Dixon. The Collection's surviving negatives and prints are now held by Indiana University. OCLC notes one holding with the PPIE information (Sutro) and two others dated 1914 (Sutro, again; Canadian Centre for Architecture).

Wrappers lightly worn, some soiling, a few chips to extremeties; very good.